br>I used to play with 2 tr-505's, one feeding a DrumStation and the other feeding a DR-660 or an old SDS drum module. Drum parts were split into 2, 8 part sequences with fewer or more drum parts added. On top of that the drums were spread out across the mixer so muting was easy, whole changes in pattern were just as easy. Hit the button to change sequence before the end of the bar and you have time to mute other stuff.

Melodies were handled by a Q-80, pre-programmed loops ranging from 16 steps up to 64 steps. All Q-80 loops were fed to all synths (DX-27, S-612, MC202, DW6000, SDE expander and a few DIY synths).

While the loops were pre-programmed the sounds and which Midi channel they followed was all done live. Took a ton of practice and expert knowledge of the gear but it always gave me a place to go if that cutoff solo on the 202 went off track

On top of that I had a CD walkman with some long vocal samples burned onto CD. They could be played non-tempo synced and covered with tons of delay and reverb, muted and soloed at will.

Ahhhh the good old days

Some soundcloud gigs are in order! br> br>

br>meska

br>i use modulare for live tekno from scratch ! br> br>

br>jak

br>used to do that with a friend, beats on the maschine and everything else with synths into ableton, nothing prepared. A lot of fun, but too stressful because we always had one of us just doing the beats. br> br>

He never made it big but the Live At Your Mama's album is stunning for live work. Soul destroying control of samplers and old synths. All live, saw him twice in one weekend and it made me question why I'm here on this planet br> br>

br>tuj

br>I used to know a dude who did this with two Yamaha DJX keyboards.

Seriously. And it didn't suck. br> br>

br>flo

br>That's way more hardcore than with a modular br> br>

br>tony d

br>Sure.Every weekend me and my buddy get together and jam like this for a few hours.You can check out excerpts of some of those sessions in my sig if your interested. br> br>

He never made it big but the Live At Your Mama's album is stunning for live work. Soul destroying control of samplers and old synths. All live, saw him twice in one weekend and it made me question why I'm here on this planet

Great to see Voiteck get a mention here seeing him live is what inspired me to get into producing and playing live. br> br>

br>Bonobo

br>I'm aiming for this, the rack I'm planning is below. I'm about half way there now, but my only sequencer is the metropolis so drums are coming from the clock out of that for the kick and the clock out of the echophon for snares so I find it very hard to get past one rhythm.

I really love it so far though, any thoughts on the best technique/must have modules or tips would be really appreciated.

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br>Paradigm X

br>yup, thats i / we do these days, love it.

more acid than techno, 909, 2x x0xb0x, tm3030 ax73 lots of fx, loving it at the moment.

br>yeah i do that with a modular, but to be fair there's lots of musicians all over the world that do it with other types of hardware and have done since the 1980s, and its a growing trend right now.

i started all hardware gigging in 1992, and back then there was lots of guys doing it in the UK.

doing it with a modular is hard work and quite scary, but definitely worth it, i get a lot of creative satisfaction that i never experienced when i was using a midi sequencer, drum machines / synths with planned out sets.

br>Guys what do you think, how much of the music can be handled by one guy if performed completely live? Making stuff from scratch, one can end up with a genius track or to be lost in complete mess. When I jam, I'm always enjoying the moment of creation,but when I listen back to these recorded jams it is different experience..Creator vs Consumer experience of the same stuff.
I'm too busy with running my construction business but if I have some free time for jamming the minimal setup for my sound experiments looks like:

Sometimes I do employ ableton as a sampler or numerology for crazier sequences.
The Perfourmer is a techno beast on its own, I could be lost in sound just with it and maybe the Zero 4 mixer. 4 powerful synth voices vs 4 powerful individual effect chains, all midi sync able
I feel like this is maximum of an instrument I can handle as a whole. br> br>

br>waves_of_awesome

br>I do a totally improvised techno/acid set solo- Here's a recording of a live set from a few months ago:

This one is a 9u eurorack system + roland tr8 into a little mackie vlz4 mixer, but for my future gigs I'm planning on going fully eurorack. br> br>

br>Steevio

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lotri22 wrote:

Guys what do you think, how much of the music can be handled by one guy if performed completely live? Making stuff from scratch, one can end up with a genius track or to be lost in complete mess. When I jam, I'm always enjoying the moment of creation,but when I listen back to these recorded jams it is different experience..Creator vs Consumer experience of the same stuff.

its just practice bro, then eventually the two become one and the same.